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Using Hide and Isolate

Using Hide and Isolate - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using Hide and Isolate

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- [Narrator] When you're working with your AutoCAD objects in a drawing, in this case our ObjectLayerProperties.dwg file that we're staying in, you will find that sometimes you need to hide or isolate objects on a really busy drawing. Now the good thing is you have a "Hide" and an "Isolate" command available to you in AutoCAD. Now you'll notice that this is not a particularly busy drawing, in fact it's a very simple drawing. But the idea being is I'm taking you through the workflow and the process of how to hide and isolate elements in your drawing, so that when it is really busy you've got the ability to utilize those commands and just be that little bit more productive when you're working in AutoCAD. So, how do you hide and isolate work? Well let's say that I only want to work on the keyhole over here on the right-hand side and I want to hide the hinge and the nut and bolt here on the left. I can select the objects, so let's do a little crossing window there. So I've selected all…

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